Time, Destroyer of Being

Life Preservers - Vol. 00.71

Time, Destroyer of Being

Can you see?
Do you understand what I mean?
Become,
train,
become knowing.
Ask why,
demand proof
and you will find, in this way,
Time -
the destroyer of Being.

Source Material: Rilke, Rainer Maria. “Letters To A Young Poet.” Translated by Stephen Mitchell, The Modern Library, 1984, pp. 102 - 2020